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Episode 764: Straight Outta Collinsport

The Dark Shadows Every Day blog dissects “Panic” with their customary wit and verve. I’m really thrilled with this review – totally gets what I was trying to do with “Panic” (and gives a well-deserved shout out to the brilliance of David Selby + Susan Sullivan)

A couple months ago, I passed the blog’s halfway point, which means there’s now more Dark Shadows behind me than there is ahead. I mean, we’ve stll got plenty of time — it’s only 1969, and what does time really mean anyway — but it makes me start to wonder about what happens when there’s no more Dark Shadows.

One thing that I know for sure is that trying to retell the story over again is a bad idea. They’ve tried three times — the failed 1991 show, the failed 2004 pilot, and the failed 2012 movie — and there’s just no point to it. This is a story that can only be told once, and it’s not like it even made that much sense the first…